new profiling features in GCC

[Carlo Wood]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:18:57PM -0400, LI YONGZHU wrote:
> Hi, I am a Master student in State University of New York at Albany, Dept.
> of CS. I am implementing an enhanced version of gprof to profile not any
> the CPU time of program, but also wall clock time and other useful
> information from the PMC register inside CPU. These kind of work need some
> modification on glibc, gprof and gcc, on their source code. Most of the
> job has been finished.
> 
> I just write this letter to inquery that if your guys have any plan to
> introduce some similar functionalities into gcc( like new command line
> options other than -p )? Or are you interested to introduce such function
> into gcc?
> 
> Yongzhu Li

Do you mean things like that is supported by libPAPI?
( http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/ )
Is you work using PAPI?  I'd be interested in hearing a little more
details about your changes.  (although I am not a maintainer of gcc).

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>